• @mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52•9 months ago

    I like how piratebay and the many torrenting sites decayed to near extinction when streaming destroyed cable, only to come back 100x stronger because streaming subsequently pulled the same crap as cable.

  • Y|yukichigaiEnglish
    46•9 months ago

    Yarr harr fiddle-dee-dee!

    There’s only one price I’m willing to pay for content with ads, and that’s zero.

      • Y|yukichigaiEnglish
        19•9 months ago

        Especially when it’s the same ad repeated over and over. You know what drove me to finally sideloading an adblocked YouTube app onto my TV? Getting interrupted every 2-3 minutes for the same Coors ad repeated at least once.

        • @No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
          1•9 months ago

          Help a brother here, what’s the name for the application, I have a Samsung TV and I absolutely hate that even to play the dumbest shorter video one gets 2ands in the front and at closing together with the occasional middle unskippable.

          • Y|yukichigaiEnglish
            2•9 months ago

            I don’t think there is one for Samsung TVs unfortunately. I only did it for my Android TV. All I did was install SmartTubeNext and that’s it.

            Generally I find my Samsung TV pretty insufficient on its own. I keep a Chromecast plugged into it, but a lot of people recommend Android/Google TV boxes since you can use them for casting and installing sideloaded ad-free apps, or even replace the launcher entirely. Walmart’s $20 Onn brand Google TV box gets recommended a lot.

    • Kernal64
      4•9 months ago

      You really should have replaced “zero” with “free” to make your post rhyme.

  • slazer2au
    34•9 months ago

    What do you mean fight them? Half of the streaming services are cable tv providers.

    • Fogle
      8•9 months ago

      I wouldn’t consider Disney, Amazon, HBO etc to be cable tv providers. I don’t think at&t has a streaming service do they?

      I know bell owns crave but I think the providers are the minority for streaming services

      • @Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world
        17•9 months ago

        ATT owns HBO (HBOMAX). They’re merging with Warner Bros and Discovery (owns Discovery+). Hulu is now majority owned by Disney after Disney purchased 21st Century Fox, but was originally established by News Corporation and NBC Universal (owned by Comcast). Comcast also owns Peacock streaming through NBC.

        Basically all of the Netflix competitors had cable companies dive into them to do a quick name change and reclaim their market share. It’s also when Netflix lost most of its library, because they pulled all of the licensed content they could to their own platform. Disney+ was one of the few non-cable services, with even Paramount+ being owned by Paramount Global (CBS Entertainment Group), which is the cable arm of Paramount Pictures that owned everything from BET Networks to Comedy Central and Showtime.

        At this point, streaming services are literally just cable with a paint job.

        • Fogle
          9•9 months ago

          Ah I didn’t realize that many cable companies bought all the platforms

          • @Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world
            3•9 months ago

            Yeah, I’d never liked Hulu because Comcast was behind it, and I will forever hate Comcast, but the enshittification of streaming services is essentially an intended return to the structure of cable packages.

      • PikaEnglish
        3•9 months ago

        doesn’t ATT own direct tv? Can’t think of a streaming service but they have vested interest in a cable TV provider

  • KptnAutismus
    17•9 months ago

    guess who has a NAS running jellyfin and a VPN to his home network?

    this guy right here

  • @phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    8•9 months ago

    Hello jellyfin my old friend…

    Well not that old, the project started only a few years ago but really has matured to the point where I don’t need Amazon or Netflix bullshit anymore